As a pastor, I regularly search for those texts that might be used in marriage counseling with couples, in pre-martial counseling, and with teens and pre-teens in the Church. Sex, God & Marriage meets all those needs, and more.
In a world dominated by broken relationships and loneliness, Arnold offers a biblical vision of community, of wholeness, of sexuality, and of marriage. He provides pastoral insight into biblical traditions of purity and vulnerability. And his wisdom addresses so many questions -- from sexual temptation to homosexuality, from how to answer the question of whether or not to marry to parenting, from divorce to remarriage.
He also has a pastoral wisdom about sensitive issues that often go unaddressed in other texts that I've used in the past -- particularly things like the perverseness of sex even within a marriage. So I found Sex, God & Marriage to be a genuine Christian vision of sex and marriage that challenged me.
His very practical advice about parenting make this book a must-have for every Christian family.
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I received a free copy of this book from Plough Publishing in exchange for this honest review.